In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

What is to give light must endure burning.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.